Sentences with phrase «for modern studies»

Because the basic chemistry of the reaction is 19th century science, it's an unconventional subject for a modern study.

Not exact matches

Another reason for the growing firm - to - firm pay gap, according to the authors of the study, could be that in the modern economy companies have become so specialized and lean that some attract high - skilled workers and others mostly lower skilled ones.

But the fact remains that when you look at the modern era of mass shootings — including but not limited to the recent horrific events in Las Vegas and Orlando, Florida — there are certain common mental health factors and motives that define the mind of a mass shooter, according to Alan J. Lipman, Ph.D., J.D., professor at the George Washington Medical Center and founder and director of the Center for the Study of Violence in Washington, D.C.

Moderator: William V. Harris, William R. Shepherd Professor of History and Director, Center for the Ancient Mediterranean, Columbia University Speaker 1: L. Randall Wray, Research Director of the Center for Full Employment and Price Stability and Professor of Economics, University of Missouri - Kansas City Speaker 2: Michael Hudson, President, Institute for the Study of Long - Term Economic Trends and Distinguished Research Professor, University of Missouri - Kansas City Tuesday, September 11, 2012 About the Seminar Series: Modern Money and Public Purpose is an eight - part, interdisciplinary seminar series held at Columbia Law School over the 2012 - 2013 academic...

Never, so far as I can tell, has modern historical study made it impossible for a contemporary person concerned about intellectual integrity to believe what the Church (or the synagogue) has long taught as necessary for true faith.

For what it's worth, in my own subjective opinion, a modern day type of Hypatia / Galileo might be modern author D.M. Murdock, who is an alumna of Franklin & Marshall College where she studied Classics, Greek Civilization.

Although the university provided the setting for some of the most enduring theology of the medieval and Reformation eras, and though the philosophy of religion in the modern period emerged under similar auspices, the recent development of departments of religious studies in secular universities represents a unique phenomenon that has profound implications for theology.

For example, books reviewed in the first months of 1910 included Herbert Croly's The Promise of American Life; Education in the Far East, by Charles F. Thwing; a philosophical study titled Religion and the Modern Mind, by Frank Carleton Doan; Jane Addams's The Spirit of Youth and the City Streets; The Immigrant Tide, by Edward Steiner; Medical Inspectors of Schools (a Russel Sage Foundation study); A. Modern City (a scientific study of that phenomenon), by William Kirk; The Leading Facts of American History, by D. H. Montgomery; and Jack London's collection of short stories, Lost Face.

The resumption of pilgrimage (often on foot) was matched by a revival in the historical and artistic studies relating to the pilgrimage, and the first modern society for this was the Société des Amis de St Jacques and Centre des Études Compostellanes, founded in Paris in 1950.

Many think of Modern Orthodoxy as a tepid compromise, Orthodoxy Lite, an accommodation with the values of bourgeois culture, satisfied with mediocrity in the study of Torah and half - hearted about the demand for single - minded commitment to God and His commandments.

Of these five books, by far the most significant for the study of his doctrine of God are Science and the Modern World, Religion in the Making, and Process and Reality.

It might be supposed that we could turn to the schools, since the task of the schools is constantly being enlarged, but the very nature of the modern school precludes this, as we have already noted in Chapter I. (For a careful and scholarly study of this problem see Alvin W. Johnson, The Legal Status of Church - State Relationships in the United States with Special Reference to the Public Schools, University of Minnesota Press, 1934.)

Many think of Modern Orthodoxy as a tepid compromise — Orthodoxy Lite, an accommodation with the values of bourgeois culture, satisfied with mediocrity in the study of Torah, and half - hearted about the demand for a single - minded commitment to God and His commandments.

Academic theologies (with their focus on such questions as method, the disciplinary status of theology in the modern university, the relationships of theology and religious studies, and the development of public criteria for theological language) are obviously related principally to the public of the academy.

Each biblical statement is a sentence which must be understood in terms of the vocabulary and grammar of its original language (Hebrew, Aramaic or Greek), but the better modern translations, such as the Revised Standard Version, have made it possible for one who understands English vocabulary and grammar to read and study the Bible without being seriously misled on most points.

One of the consequences of the focus on the role of interpretive communities has been a renewed appreciation for the forms of interpretation practiced by Jewish and Christian communities before the rise of modern biblical studies during the Enlightenment.

It was conducted as a collaborative effort with the Cohen Center for Modern Jewish Studies at Brandeis University and Gerstein Agne Strategic Communications.

In a modern democracy there is no place for a class of educated gentry who enjoy their studies at the expense of the ignorant toiling masses.

The modern study of the New Testament, which seems to have undermined the historical foundations for the traditional view, has at the same time brought to light that in any case this was not actually the way in which the first apostles understood the resurrection of Jesus.

Fehr's preference for experiment over theory may sound admirably modern, but the value of studies in «behavioural game theory», which try to isolate and replicate purely economic choices, is questionable.

Now I relish studying the rainbow of orthodox testimonies and happily embrace the term paleo - orthodoxy if for no other reason than to signal clearly that I do not mean modern neo-orthodoxy.

Editor's Note: Wayne Grudem, research professor of theology and biblical studies at Phoenix Seminary om Phoenix, Arizona, is author of Politics According to the Bible: A Comprehensive Resource for Understanding Modern Political Issues in Light of Scripture.

Neo-orthodoxy, rejecting what it considered the facile optimism of 19th century liberalism, accepted the finds of modern science, but drew a distinction between the realms appropriate for scientific and theological study.

But as E. A. Burtt noted over half a century ago in his classic book The Metaphysical Foundations of Modern Physical Science, the thinker who claims to eschew philosophy in favor of science is constantly tempted «to make a metaphysics out of his method,» trying to define reality as what his preferred techniques can measure rather than letting reality dictate what techniques are appropriate for studying it.

As to method, the older view was rooted in the traditional ecclesiastical theory of Mark's derivation from Matthew — which modern Synoptic study completely reverses — and it took for granted a conception of «Paulinism» which made the Apostle to the Gentiles responsible for everything in primitive Christianity which could not be squared with a crass, reactionary Christian Judaism; it completely ignored the development of a Gentile type — or types — of Christianity apart from and even prior to the work of Paul.

Walter Wink believes that the modern methods for studying and teaching Scripture are broken.

This was, in fact, a form of faith that denied the relevance of the Judeo - Christian tradition for modern life by denying it any place in the study program.

These texts and studies do not exhaust the various ways in which women were perceived, and their roles commented upon, by writers of the early church, but they offer points of departure for a discussion on the contribution of women to the life and witness of the early church without forgetting that the «ancient sources and modern historians agree that primary conversion to Christianity was far more prevalent among females than among males» [13] in the time of the early church.

Modern Trends in World Religions, edited by Joseph M. Kitagawa, is not a systematic introduction to world religions but is useful as a general introduction for it is a collection of essays on current trends and problems in the study of world religions as seen by competent scholars who have been reflecting on the results of their research.

(See my «The Spiritual Christ,» Journal of Biblical Literature 54:1 - 15; also the «Note on Christology» in my Frontiers of Christian Thinking (1935), and my essay, The Significance of Critical Study of the Gospels for Religious Thought Today,» in the volume presented to Professor Harris Franklin Rall, Theology and Modern Life, ed.

A prime objective of the study of modern history should be to make vivid the story of the emergence of one world and the spread of the hunger and hope for freedom to people everywhere.

So Altizer lays out the problems raised for him by the death of God in terms of the sacred and the profane, and this enables him to make interesting use of Eliade's studies of the meaning of the sacred in archaic and modern religion.

In The Bible After Babel: Historical Criticism in a Postmodern Age, the Old Testament scholar John Collins observes that the rules for historical study are academic rather than confessional, based on modern canons of historical analysis rather than classical principles of faith.

The modern study of the Bible can bring that history to life for us today and renew our zest in continuing the movement of whose origins and early history it tells us.

Carol Inannone teaches in New York Univerity's Gallatin School of Individualized Study and has written for Commentary, Modern Age, and the American Scholar.

On the other hand, it would be overly simple to claim the Hebrew Scriptures in support of our modern study of animal life or the work of environmental conservation, since it is clear that neither priest not prophet thought the order of nature as we now see it to reflect God's intentions, either original or ultimate, for it.

The Institute for Advanced Christian Studies is sponsoring an important series of college textbooks on Christianity and modern intellectual concerns.

Given that some two - thirds of the Church's bishops and cardinals, a great proportion of the Roman Curia, and indeed many of the world's seminary professors, have studied in the Roman Pontifical universities, the STOQ project is seen to be crucial as away of educating the Church to understand better the contribution of the Church to science, the need for the Church's dialogue with the world of the scientist, and the insights the Church can gain from the findings of modern science.

Under the influence of theories of progress or decline or development in history such study has frequently been carried on for the purpose of explaining the differences between Biblical and modern life before God.

For a knowledgeable summary of Mowinckel's position in this regard, see Aubrey Johnson, «The Psalms,» in H. H. Rowley, ed., The Old Testament and Modern Study, Oxford, 1951.

From these traditions, we have inherited not only the specific substantive emphases that distinguish each from the others but a legacy of common themes as well: (1) a theoretically grounded rationale for the importance of studying religion in any serious effort to understand the major dynamics of modern societies, (2) a view of religion that recognizes the significance of its cultural content and form, and (3) a perspective on religion that draws a strong connection between studies of religion and studies of culture more generally — specifically, studies of.

I studied at OU (modern history) for 3 years, and felt so privileged to spend time in such beautiful surroundings.

Now for thefirst time an impartial study employing modern sampling methods has beenreleased, which answers these questions.

It was all about the way birth is dealt with by modern medicine and it would have been heart - breaking to read the case studies even if my partner hadn't been interviewed for it.

The non-economic reasons for the changes remain largely unanswered by the study, which hints that some modern - day fathers appear to want a bigger role in raising children.

A study focusing on the complex and changing role of fathers in the modern American family was released by the Boston College Center for Work & Family on June 18, 2010.

Beyond the downside of not having sufficient discretionary time to recharge, another consequence is that there is so little room in the modern day student's schedule that «time management» becomes an exercise in either compressing homework (and studying and projects) into a finite and blocked period of time, or sacrificing sleep (another topic for another day and a reality for many students).

It also reorganised secondary education into two basic types: grammar schools, which focused on academic studies, with the assumption that many of their pupils would go on to higher education; and secondary modern schools, which were intended for children who would be going into trades, and which therefore concentrated on basic and vocational skills.

In recognition and appreciation of his contribution towards the transformation of the Institute of Professional Studies (IPS) into a modern university for Professional training, Prof Joshua Alabi the former Vice Chancellor was honored yesterday, Friday, at a short but beautiful ceremony in Accra.

Ministers have been blamed for the decline in modern languages, after they removed the requirement for all GCSE students to study at least one language two years ago.